almost; nearly
eş: beinah
köken: From Middle High German bīnāhe, bīnāch. Analysable as bei (“by, near”) + nah (“near, close”). Compare Dutch bijna.
almost
köken: Univerbation of près + que. Akin to Italian pressoché.
almost
eş: por poco
köken: Semi-learned borrowing from Latin quasi. Doublet of cuasi. The two were originally in a complementary distribution that depended on stress.
aile: casi casi, de casi no se muere nadie, los casis no cuentan
🔊 Casi casi que me parece que ocurriese ayer mismo.
regarding, concerning
köken: Borrowed from Latin circā.
nearly (almost, but not quite), virtually
eş: возможно, едва не, едва ли не, чуть ли не, почти что, практически
🔊 чуть не пла́ча
🔊 Он чуть не подпры́гнул от восто́рга.
🔊 И как мне отвеча́ют на мою́ пра́вду, на моё че́стное отноше́ние? В меня́ чуть не броса́ют камня́ми и е́здят на мне верхо́м.
almost
🔊 Mən az qala yıxılmışdım.
almost, nearly
köken: Borrowed from Arabic قَرِيب (qarīb).
almost · soon
eş: bijkans, haast, nagenoeg, schier, vrijwel
köken: From Middle Dutch bina. Equivalent to a univerbation of bij + na. Compare German beinahe.
Portekizce 🔊 quase /ˈkwa.zi/ almost (very close to)
çekim: çoğul quases
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”). Cognate of Spanish casi, Spanish cuasi, French quasi and Italian quasi.
nearly, almost, near miss, close but no cigar, hair's breadth, just (used to indicate something that almost or nearly happened)
eş: στο τσακ
köken: παρά (pará, “except, despite”) + λίγο (lígo, “a little”)
🔊 Παραλίγο να τρακάρουμε.
almost, nearly
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거ᅀᅴ (Yale: kezuy).
🔊 손님은 거의가 오셨습니다.
🔊 내 동생은 퇴근을 하면 남은 시간의 거의를 공부를 하는 데 쓰더라.
almost, nearly, practically
köken: Literally, “without little”.
🔊 bez mała dwadzieścia lat
🔊 w każdym bez mała mieszkaniu
nearly, about
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian تقریباً (taqrīban), from Arabic تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban).
🔊 मैंने तक़रीबन तीन बजे लंच किया।
almost, nearly, close to
köken: lähi- (“near”) + -s (s-lative singular)
aile: läheskään, lähestulkoon
🔊 lähes tuhat
🔊 lähes mahdoton
nearly (almost, but not quite)
near, close, nearby · almost (very close to), nearly
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad prope, composed of ad (“to, at”) + prope (“near”). Compare Aromanian aproapea.
near (used with -hoz/-hez/-höz) · nearly (almost a given amount or result)
çekim: çoğul közelek
zıt: messze, távol
köken: Lexicalization of köz (“gap”) + -l (ablative suffix).
aile: közeledik, közeleg, közeli, közelít, közelről, közelség, Közel-Kelet, közelmúlt
almost, nearly · scarcely, hardly, barely
köken: Possibly from the same root as patior (“to suffer”); this may be Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-(i)- (“to hurt”) (this is supported by Pokorny), but its standard reconstruction as *peh₁-(i)- (or *peh₁y-) creates phonetic problems for the Latin. Neri (2007), following Vine, derives it Proto-Indo-European *p(e)-ai-ni- (“not entirely; from whom has been taken away; who takes away”), from *pe- (“away”) +…
aile: paenīnsula, paenultimus, paenumbra
definite singular of næste
almost (very close to)
köken: Inherited from Malay hampir, but inconclusive. * There is possibility that Malay hampir is a loanword from Dutch amper (“scarcely, barely”) as its high and almost universal usage in Flemish, in turn derived from Middle Dutch amper (“sour”), which had similar semantic development to German sehr (“very”) or Alemannic German rüüdig (“very”) and are cognates of Swedish amper and German Ampfer. *…
aile: berhampiran, hampir-hampir, hampiran, hampirkan, menghampiri, menghampirkan